«وَكَيْفَ يَقْرِي مَنْ نُفِيَ عَنْهُ الْكَرَى»
How can someone offer hospitality when sleep itself has been driven from him?
Yaqrī means to host or feed a guest; karā means sleep. The similar sounds of qirā / karā, with a different initial consonant, express distinct ideas.
The youth explains his incapacity with restraint. The rhetorical value lies not only in sound play but in turning his own deprivation into a dignified explanation.
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The Kūfan Maqāmah: Abū Zayd’s Strange Tale and the Midnight Knock
«وَكَيْفَ يَقْرِي مَنْ نُفِيَ عَنْهُ الْكَرَى»
How can someone offer hospitality when sleep itself has been driven from him?
Yaqrī means to host or feed a guest; karā means sleep. The similar sounds of qirā / karā, with a different initial consonant, express distinct ideas.
The youth explains his incapacity with restraint. The rhetorical value lies not only in sound play but in turning his own deprivation into a dignified explanation.